Puzzle.



W. FITZGERALD.

PUZZLE. APPLICATION FILED 00T. 24. 1914 Ll. Patented Mar.30,1915.

IT L

'Mmm

/\f @Y 0* a;

,c a@ d, uL@

'E' p as. as

E' /1 0 s in @63 @a a@ E f5 @D @"2 l@ c a A@ G@ EF@ @A e Q Q STATES PATENTOFFICE.

warum rrrzanmn, or iBruneauom, ooNNncrIcU'r.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Fuzennanm a citizen of the United States, reslding at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Puzzles;

- and'I do hereby declare the lfollowing to be a full clear, and exact description of the invention,'such as will enable others skilled in v:the 'art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to puzzles and 1n particular to' puzzles'fof the game board ty e.

Ine of the objects' of this invention is to provide a puzzle which one person can play to a conclusion.

Another object of this invention is to pro- .vide a device whereby a game board is so constructed that either marbles, dice, pegs or 'disks can be used in the operation thereof.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a device whereby the moves of the game or puzzle are made exceedingly intricate and diiiicult by having single corner pockets or openings in the game board with relation to a free central o ening.

Still another object of th1s invention is to provide a device whereby the instruments used can be successively jumped and removed from the board under the rules until there is only one'remaining in the central pocket. l

Other objects and advantages' of this invention will be hereinafter more clearly set forth in the specifications and pointed out in the claims.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts in the drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my game board with the openings or pockets vshown therein, Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof showing the method of forming the openings -or pockets through the game board, and Fig. 3 is a detail of the game board `showing the relative position of the corner opening with relation to the balance of the openings.

In the drawings, 1 is my game board composed of paper, wood or metal, as is desirable, but preferably of metal, having stamped therethrough a series of openings or pockets 2, said openings consistlng of. an upper concavial portion 3 and a lower apertured portion 4, the forming of the apertured portion 4 making a depressed lower strument remains in the central l rUzzLE.

, 1,133,546. s Speciiilctqn 0f Letters Pmnt- PatentedMaluSO, 1915.

. appunti@ mea october 24,1914. seriamaeegaz?.

ring 5 therearound adapted. to act asa wa-ll for a peg, thereby forming a deep seat or as a foot to the game board, these depressed portions being formed substantially shown m- Fig. 2 of the drawings; 'the apertured portion 4 of the opening is substantially off the board. There should be a total of nine openings, counting the center opening in each of these radial rows. A pair of parallel rows are had on each side of the above described rows, each opening therein re 'stering with one of the openings of the 2st mentioned row, but including only seven openings `to a row thereby leaving the corner opening previously described isolated. For convenience in operation each one of these openings, beginning with the lower left hand corner and running from left to right as each parallel row is advanced, are numbered from 1 to 37 consecutively, as plainly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A marble, die, disk or other suitable instrument 3 is positioned in each of the pockets with the exception of the central openingl numbered 19 as above described.

With the arrangement ofthe pockets as above described, it is impossible to make the same number and erform as intricate moves ments, removing the instrument jumped from the board, until the last remainlng ino ening, numbered 19 as above described. t takes 35 moves to bring this game or puzzle to a solution, which can be attained by several diii'erent operations, each intricate in their several ways but for convenience of illusvtra-tion the herein solution is means of showing a solution of the puzzle.

In this solution, move as follows z-Jump instrument in pocket 17 over 18, 15--16, 5-10, 89,y 11-10, 7-6, 20-12, l.1.-7, 13, 13-12, 29-21, 2 5, 141-13, 27-28, 36-33, 31-32, 33-28, 301-29, 20-12, 23-22, 7 6, 1819,. 5-10, 18-26, 37-35, 311-31-, 21--20, 25-26, 28-27, 11-19, 27-26, 24-25, 9-17, 25-26, and 32-27. By this solution itis to be noticed that the last move is 32 over 27 which brings the instrument which was in 32 now in 19, the central opening of the board, ending the game or puzzle as previously described.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desirev to secure by Let- I ters Patent, is

1. A game board puzzle, comprising, a. game board, having a series of thlrty-seven openings therein, a portion of said openings being-in registering parallel rows, with one ing in each of the corners of said game board, consecutively numbered from 1 to 37, and each' advancing row 'reading from left opening in the center and one isolated openi.

to right` starting in the lower left hand 2. A game 'board puzzle,comprisin'g a game board, having thirty-seven openings therein, thirty-six instruments, one upon each of said openingswith the exception of the central opening thereto adapted to be consecutively )umped over each other in thirty-five moves so that the last instrument used will beI jumped to the central opening.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of 

